Chasers

Obviously Finchy’s a sophisticated guy and Gareth’s a culture vulture. Will it be opera? Ballet? I don’t know. I know the RSC’s in town. Having said that, at Chasers it’s a Hooch for a pound and Wonderbras get in free night.

Weirdly, you might’ve been to this page before and it look a bit different. That is to say that it’s one of the first few designs I did for Slough’s premier late-night venue. The thing is, I absolutely got it wrong. Back in those days (approximately three years ago) I wasn’t so on the ball with my research and was largely creating stuff from memory. I knew the episode where the Wernham Hogg employees hit the town and end up in Chasers but neglected to properly spool back through and double check it. So when encountering said episode the other day, lo and behold; the Chasers logo.

In traditional style, I don’t do shitty replications, and thankfully it was totally skewed and / or blurred, so I consider it fair game. In fact, it was also depicted in horrifying neon lights, so turned out to actually be pretty damn difficult to nail. But here we are, roughly a thousand days later with the whole thing rectified. Conceptually, I think it’s far more wretched than the version I invented from scratch. Which is actually a plus point when you think about it.

Speaking of things being wretched, there are versions of Chasers in every town in Britain. Terrible venues playing terrible music to terrible people*. Personally, I’ve lost so many hours of my life to these types of place it’s untrue. I don’t mean that in a bad way – at least you know what you’re getting for your entry fee. As long as it’s got the hits and isn’t playing skull-melting drum n bass all night, I’m all for it. It’s a cheap night out and you might get to see a fight. Smash a kebab in your face on the way home. Magic.

Never been to Slough, though. I’ve been through it. I think that’s certainly enough. Sorry, Slough.

*The clip features ‘Spinning Around’ by Kylie Minogue, ‘Ebeneezer Goode’ by The Shamen, ‘The Macarena’ by Los Del Rio, ‘Rendez-Vu’ by Basement Jaxx and a remix of Britney Spears’ ‘Oops!… I Did it Again’ by someone called Helen. I only think two of these are terrible and one is actually very good. Can you guess which ones are which?